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<h4 class="subsection">9.14.5 ESA/390 Assembler Directives</h4>

<p><code>as</code> for the ESA/390 supports all of the standard ELF/SVR4
assembler directives that are documented in the main part of this
documentation.  Several additional directives are supported in order
to implement the ESA/390 addressing model.  The most important of these
are <code>.using</code> and <code>.ltorg</code>
</p>
<a name="index-ESA_002f390_002donly-directives"></a>
<p>These are the additional directives in <code>as</code> for the ESA/390:
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt><code>.dc</code></dt>
<dd><p>A small subset of the usual DC directive is supported.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>.drop <var>regno</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Stop using <var>regno</var> as the base register.  The <var>regno</var> must
have been previously declared with a <code>.using</code> directive in the
same section as the current section.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>.ebcdic <var>string</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Emit the EBCDIC equivalent of the indicated string.  The emitted string
will be null terminated.  Note that the directives <code>.string</code> etc. emit
ascii strings by default.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>EQU</code></dt>
<dd><p>The standard HLASM-style EQU directive is not supported; however, the
standard <code>as</code> directive .equ can be used to the same effect.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>.ltorg</code></dt>
<dd><p>Dump the literal pool accumulated so far; begin a new literal pool.
The literal pool will be written in the current section; in order to
generate correct assembly, a <code>.using</code> must have been previously
specified in the same section.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>.using <var>expr</var>,<var>regno</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Use <var>regno</var> as the base register for all subsequent RX, RS, and SS form
instructions. The <var>expr</var> will be evaluated to obtain the base address;
usually, <var>expr</var> will merely be &lsquo;<samp>*</samp>&rsquo;.
</p>
<p>This assembler allows two <code>.using</code> directives to be simultaneously
outstanding, one in the <code>.text</code> section, and one in another section
(typically, the <code>.data</code> section).  This feature allows
dynamically loaded objects to be implemented in a relatively
straightforward way.  A <code>.using</code> directive must always be specified
in the <code>.text</code> section; this will specify the base register that
will be used for branches in the <code>.text</code> section.  A second
<code>.using</code> may be specified in another section; this will specify
the base register that is used for non-label address literals.
When a second <code>.using</code> is specified, then the subsequent
<code>.ltorg</code> must be put in the same section; otherwise an error will
result.
</p>
<p>Thus, for example, the following code uses <code>r3</code> to address branch
targets and <code>r4</code> to address the literal pool, which has been written
to the <code>.data</code> section.  The is, the constants <code>=A(some_routine)</code>,
<code>=H'42'</code> and <code>=E'3.1416'</code> will all appear in the <code>.data</code>
section.
</p>
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<pre class="example">.data
	.using  LITPOOL,r4
.text
	BASR	r3,0
	.using	*,r3
        B       START
	.long	LITPOOL
START:
	L	r4,4(,r3)
	L	r15,=A(some_routine)
	LTR	r15,r15
	BNE	LABEL
	AH	r0,=H'42'
LABEL:
	ME	r6,=E'3.1416'
.data
LITPOOL:
	.ltorg
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<p>Note that this dual-<code>.using</code> directive semantics extends
and is not compatible with HLASM semantics.  Note that this assembler
directive does not support the full range of HLASM semantics.
</p>
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